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The high five habit started a year ago for me.

I looked in the mirror and immediately my thoughts went, I hate my freaking

jowls. These look like saddlebags and my eyes and my stripes on my neck and this boob is lower

than that one. And I started to feel overwhelmed. So I don't know what came over me, but I just

raised my hand and high-five my own reflection. And I started doing

it every day. It is impossible to raise your hand and high-five your own reflection and have a

negative thought about yourself. You have spent an entire lifetime high-fiving other people.

And when you give somebody with this physical action a high five, you don't even

have to say anything. The action itself communicates, I believe in you, I've got you,

I celebrate you. What this is reminding me is at least I've got myself. I can have my own

back. I know for a fact that what's also happening is that you are fulfilling your own emotional needs

of being seen, heard, and being celebrated. So instead of looking around for somebody else to do it,

you're giving it to yourself. So interesting. I mean, I think it's breaking the habit loop of

negativity and it's being intentional.

So still in that basal ganglip, prefrontal cortex,

celebration increases dopamine,

which then wires the feeling into your nervous system.

That has also been borne out by the studies, that the celebration and the joining in with you

honors your deepest fundamental needs to be seen, to be heard, and to be celebrated.

And I am on a mission to teach people that you can actually fulfill those for yourself in small ways. And one of those ways is by making it a habit

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